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Project ‘Trinitea’
Why is it in the news?
- A MoU was signed between the Indian Tea Association (ITA) the apex body of North Indian tea producers and Solidaridad for jointly implementing project trinitea.
- Solidaridad is a network which works to promote sustainable production of 13 commodities across nine regions globally.
- The project aims at providing support to small tea growers (STG) in the form of customised farm management as well as access to real time information on climate, soil and markets.
More in the news
- Recognising the rising importance of STG in the supply chain, tea estates in North India are testing the project ‘Trinitea,’ which aims at providing support to the STG at the farm and market level.
- The project is already being rolled out in select ITA-member tea gardens who supplement their output through the STG crop.
- The project would help monitor green leaf quality, establish traceability mechanisms and set up vendor development for supply of farm inputs.
- According to ITA’s chairman, the MoUs would create better value and acceptability in the global and domestic market for teas produced across the value-chain encompassing both the sectors.
- The STG sector’s share in total Indian tea crop has been rising steadily and now constitutes 47% of the total production.
- Many large producers are sourcing green leaf from STG and in the absence of testing facilities, outsourced green leaf from multiple agents fail to comply with the permitted standards of pesticides and good farm practices.
Source
Indian Express.